- Ensign Hoshi Sato: [on "Sluggo"] I shouldn't have brought her on board. Maybe I could ask the Captain to try to find a planet with an argon-rich atmosphere.
- Dr. Phlox: It might be easier just to feed her to my bat.
- [Archer has suggested a weapons test to test the ship's targeting scanners]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Come on, Travis - we've got to find Mr. Reed something to blow up.
- [T'Pol has detected a vessel drifting in space]
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Maybe we should go have a look.
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: If you insist on allowing your curiosity to dictate your actions.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: We insist.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: [about "Sluggo"] She needs to get back to an environment that is more suited to her.
- Dr. Phlox: Mm... Perhaps someplace where she could teach.
- [in reference to his earlier suggestion to Sato to take up teaching at the university]
- [last lines]
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: [setting "Sluggo" free on a planet] This isn't exactly like the place you came from; but it's close enough. It's not that hard to adapt. You're gonna do just fine here.
- Dr. Phlox: Humans are so unpredictable. Have you seen the quantities of food Crewman Namod consumes?
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: ...Not really.
- Dr. Phlox: Have you smelled Ensign Socorro after she exercises?
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Er...
- Dr. Phlox: She gives off a fragrance not unlike the adrenal gland of a Nausicaan. And, uh, Crewmen Bennett and Haynem over there, do you see them? If I'm not mistaken, they are preparing to mate.
- [Tucker tries to appear uninvolved]
- Dr. Phlox: Do you think they might let me watch?
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: It's good to see you're enjoying yourself.
- [Archer has criticized T'Pol's advice to leave the dead aliens behind]
- Sub-Commander T'Pol: We have a code of behavior. And we try to obey it.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: You may not believe this, but... Humans have a code of behavior too. It took a few thousand years, but... I think we're starting to get it right. Can't believe I almost ignored it.
- [first lines]
- [Hoshi is trying to animate a slug-like creature, tutting]
- Dr. Phlox: I didn't realize you spoke slug.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Before we left, Admiral Forrest said we'd be making history with every light year. But we're not gonna do that sitting on our hands.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Hoshi'll decipher their language and compose a message. Hopefully it'll make sense.
- [Sato has prevented disaster by negotiating with an alien in its own language]
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I think we may have just made a friend... thanks to you.
- Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: We've been out here two weeks and our first contact is with a dying worm.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: When I used to dream about this mission, the last thing I envisioned was having a Vulcan on board who continuously sucked the air out of the room.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: What's wrong?
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: The environmental suits, they make me a little... claustrophobic.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Claustrophobic? And you took a job on a spaceship?
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: You talked me into it, remember?
- Captain Jonathan Archer: I don't recall reading about any problems during your zero-G training.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: Well, I just, I... I bit my lip and got through it.
- Captain Jonathan Archer: Well, you're gonna have to bite your lip again.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: I'm a translator; I didn't come out here to see corpses hanging on hooks.
- Dr. Phlox: It goes without saying that you're going to encounter the unexpected.
- Ensign Hoshi Sato: Not corpses on hooks!